Latin rock, Afro-Cuban funk, and many other names have been applied to the music of Seema Funk.

The 35-year-old star is now making waves around the world, earning Grammy nominations three years in a row and being called a global ambassador for Cuban music.

And the final piece in their series from Havana, senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown,

and senior arts producer Anne Azi Davenport, show how Seam Funk is blending genres to produce

his own sound. It's part of our arts and culture series, Canvas.

He's a man of many moves, a dynamic on stage presence, a performer on the move for a

frenetic crowd at the historic La Tropecal in Havana.

At his Seema Fest, an annual dance party held twice a year in Miami and New Orleans.

Mixing it up with the crowd at Austin City Limits.

Everywhere he goes, Seema Funk is bringing his own special mix of Afro-Cuban sounds and rhythms

and African-American Funk and Soul.

I say that I'm mixing because I try to put more and more funk in the Afro-Cuban music that I make.

70's soul and 70s funk and you put it together with Afro-Cuban.

Yes, yes.

Because it's really similar to the Cuban feeling in terms of expression and melodies and way to sing and way to say the scenes.

Seema funk was born Eric Iglesias Rodriguez, into a family he describes as very poor

in Pinard de Rio, two hours from Havana. If his music is a blend, so is his stage name.

Seema comes from the term Simaronis, the Cubans of African descent to escape slavery from the 16th century on,

and established their own communities.

Learning that history, he says, opened up his world and his path to music.

Whatever they were creating was original because it was freedom expression.

It was dealing with the things, but it was, we are free here.

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